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Step 1 - Basics
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Go to K-12
Networking and find what the three
basic components of a network are (hint: Chapter 3). List them in a word
document titled basic equipment. List
all answers in this document.
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Now that you know the three basic components,
list what pieces of equipment you will need.
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For a room with 3 computers, what equipment
will each computer need?
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What piece of hardware is now needed
to connect those three computers?
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You should now know what equipment
is required to connect 3 machines. What would you do to connect 25 machines?
List answer in document.
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You now have a list of what equipment
is needed for each room with 3 machines and each lab with 25 machines.
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Go to the Intel Networking Products
page and look for a solution to connect a PRINTER to your network. What
did you find?
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Step 2 - Equipment
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Using the basic
equipment document as a template, create a new document called wiring.
record all answers from step 2
in this document.
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Use the floor plan, in the resources
section, to figure out how many rooms need to be wired. How many classrooms
need to be wired? Subtract 3 for use as computer labs.
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How many computers are needed for all
the classrooms? (not including the 3 labs).
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Add the 75 computers in the 3 labs.
What are the total number of computers to be connected?
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Using the floor plan. Figure out where
you may want to place wiring closets. Using any of the resources listed,
the classroom demonstration of equipping a wiring closet and the "field
trip" to the main wiring closet in the school, list the required equipment
in each of your wire closets.
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TIP: create each closet the same way,
only the number of computers being connected should change.
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Step 3 - Wiring
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Record all answers in the wiring
document from step 2.
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Now use the floor plan to sketch how
you would run the wire between each wiring closet.
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What type of medium would you use to
connect each closet? Refer to Quick Reference
Guides to 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet.
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What type of medium would you use to
connect each room to the relative wiring closet?
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How many computers can be connected
to each segment?
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You should now know where all wring
connections are located.
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Step 4 - Equipment Vendor
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You now know all the equipment that
you need, how many connections and where each connection is located. Now
choose a vendor (click
here for vendor references). Browse
the vendor's product line a select the specific equipment that you need.
Record this in a new document called vendor,
use the same format as the previous documents.
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List the vendor and products that you
would use to satisfy the equipment requirements for each room, lab and
wiring closet.
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You may use more than one vender.
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Try to justify your vendor choices.
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Step 5 - Pricing
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Record all pricing information in a
document called pricing,
use the same format as the previous documents.
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Use the catalog
sources to get pricing information. List source next to each price.
you may use other sources.
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While finding prices for your vendor,
notice the prices of similar products from other vendors. Where do your
vendor prices rank? (high, low, about the same)
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In relation to the price ranking, justify
your vendors prices. Take the following information into consideration
during your analysis:
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If high, is the product of higher quality?
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If low, is the product of lower quality?
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Are certain vendors over priced because
of vendor label, but have similar performance to cheaper products?
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Does vendor service and support have
any affect?
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Step 6 - Create Presentation
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Based on the information listed in
the steps above, create a Power Point presentation to show your results
to the class.
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Include data recorded in the documents
generated from the questions above.
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You may include vendor logo's and quotes
to support your equipment choices.
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